How To Install vistrails on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install vistrails on Kali Linux. vistrails is Science visualisation workflow toolkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vistrails on Kali Linux.

What is vistrails

vistrails is:

VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration and visualization. Whereas workflows have been traditionally used to automate repetitive tasks, for applications that are exploratory in nature, such as simulations, data analysis and visualization, very little is repeated—change is the norm. As an engineer or scientist generates and evaluates hypotheses about data under study, a series of different, albeit related, workflows are created while a workflow is adjusted in an interactive process. VisTrails was designed to manage these rapidly-evolving workflows.

There are three methods to install vistrails on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install vistrails Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install vistrails using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install vistrails

Install vistrails Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vistrails using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vistrails

Install vistrails Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install vistrails using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vistrails

How To Uninstall vistrails on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the vistrails package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vistrails

Uninstall vistrails And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vistrails and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vistrails

Remove vistrails Configurations and Data

To remove vistrails configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vistrails

Remove vistrails configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vistrails configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vistrails

Dependencies

vistrails have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vistrails package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.